Hold to the PROMISE
Believe God for the PROVISION
Take stock of your PROBLEMS
Determine to learn God’s PRINCIPLES
Hebrews 3:8 "Do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness…"
Deuteronomy 13:3 "…you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul."
Joni Earikson Tada “Love Jesus more, obey Jesus more.”
PROMISE Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future."
2 Corinthians 1:20 "For no matter how many promises the God has made, they are ‘yes’ in Christ."
Mark 11:24 "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe you have received it, and it will be yours."
The Wilderness: no milk, no honey, no water, no food, no home, enemies
PRINCIPLE
Hosea 4:6 "My people are destroyed from a lack of knowledge."
Matthew 28:19 "Therefore go and disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you."
James 1:25 "But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do."
The PROMISE comes with PROBLEMs to help us learn God’s PRINCIPLEs
We confuse unconditional love with unconditional blessings
John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the Word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit of itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me."
The Four P's
August 13, 2017 • Bill Dwyer
The Test of Delay
October 1, 2017 • Jimmy Reyes
As we wait we will be tempted to take shortcuts or try to change our circumstances. See the story of Abraham and Sarah Genesis 12:1-4, 15:1-6, 16:1-6, 21:1-5 As we wait we need to remember: What God is doing in us is more important than the things we are waiting for.
The Test of Endurance
September 24, 2017 • Bill Dwyer
Endurance in Greek is HUPOMONE Luke 21:19 Stand firm and you will win life. 2 Corinthians 4:7-12 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.